A BMW retailer in Switzerland is promoting the new X5 with a TV spot created entirely with Blender. As it usually happens in advertising, short deadlines demand fast production. This is how RenderStreet was entrusted with rendering a significant part of the animation.
Blend Swap is an initiative to open collaboration that grew to become the biggest library of 3D assets made with Blender, at free disposal for personal and commercial use. Launched in 2009, the site gathered a community of more than 48k registered users fostered by founder Matthew Muldoon.
A great event may be measured by the ideas and projects it generates. For us, Blender Conference was the place where we came up with a way to help Blender community develop.
We are officially launching the RenderStreet for Artists sponsorship program in which we will provide selected projects with free rendering on our servers.
The only requirement for applicants is that their project is open and all the resources are made available for anyone to use. It may be an animation film, a 3D image, whatever you decide to work on that needs fast rendering.
On 20-21st of November, all the tech scene of Central and Eastern Europe was in Bucharest, attending How to Web event, organized by Bogdan Iordache and his team. RenderStreet was selected, among other 32 finalists, to take part in the Startup Spotlight competition, a valuable experience taking us closer to the next stages of our business.
How to Web is dedicated to the online tech industry, with keynotes from company CEOs, investors, serial entrepreneurs, start-up accelerator officials, designers, web journalists and we’ve never missed any edition, since 2009.
Besides running a serious business, we love watching well animated cartoons. And when Blender Institute released the first episode of Caminandes, we knew we wanted to back them up.
We allocated 50 some pro-bono servers and we gave Pablo Vazquez and his team our full support for rendering the next llama adventures. For the last month, our servers have been busy with Cycle rendering Caminandes Grand Dillama scenes. Amazingly, one day after the upload, it got over 20k views on YouTube:
Even if our service is up and running for almost a full year now, business wise, we are constantly looking for development opportunities and exploring strategies to enrich RenderStreet on all levels. This small intro is meant to prepare some good news: RenderStreet is a finalist in the Startup Spotlight competition, part of the How to Web event.
